Aaron Davis over at the Washington Post provided an update on the marijuana legislation effort in Washington DC, one of the first east coast communities looked to put marijuana legalization on the 2014 ballot.
"The District should set aside the warnings of its attorney general and let voters decide whether they want to legalize marijuana possession in the nation’s capital, advocates for the measure argued Tuesday before the D.C. Board of Elections.
The band of marijuana advocates is seeking to make the District one of the first East Coast cities to legalize marijuana possession. If it successfully gets the measure on the November ballot, legalization has a strong chance of being approved, according to a recent Washington Post poll, and it could hasten the arrival in Washington of a debate that has simmered mostly in Western states." h/t Washington Post
There is arguably no better place in the United States to make clear the discrepancies between federal law and local law on the subject, and a progressive move in Washington DC may put legalization advocates one step closer to their goals on a federal level (perhaps the first step: delisting marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug under the Controlled Substances Act, among other things).